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he needs to channel tip o'neill, and the president needs to channel ronald reagan, and they have to do things. people talk about it, it was wonderful, it was bliss, it was euphoria. but they made tough choices. they raised the age of social security, and they whacked people with pensions, and they raised revenues. the only way you solve this problem is through the big deal. >> don't you have to be big to do a big deal? >> yeah, but these are the leaders of the country. >> is your leader your leader? i don't think boehner is your leader. >> he is my leader. but not anymore, i'm retired. >> i don't think he calls the shots of your party. >> i don't agree with that. he calls the shots. he has 20 or 30 that came in in 2010 and that are going to vote no no matter what. it's time to forget those guys. >> has he done that? >> yeah, he has. he did it at the end of the year. when they rejected plan b, he broke the hastert rule and put it on the floor. >> that mines you can't vote until you get the majority of your own party. we heard some harsh words from speaker boehner and nancy pelosi this m
he needs to channel tip o'neill, and the president needs to channel ronald reagan, and they have to do things. people talk about it, it was wonderful, it was bliss, it was euphoria. but they made tough choices. they raised the age of social security, and they whacked people with pensions, and they raised revenues. the only way you solve this problem is through the big deal. >> don't you have to be big to do a big deal? >> yeah, but these are the leaders of the country. >> is...
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what we're saying here is we need to do exactly what ronald reagan did with tip o'neill. show the leadership to get in the room and make the changes. same as bill clinton did with newt gingrich. get in the room and make the changes that are needed to make this. look, we faced bigger problems before, and we have been able to overcome them. i believe we can do this one more time. >> senator, the politics of this are also quite interesting and also part of the calculation. the treasury secretary saying, sure, absolutely, the president will go over the cliff if that's what it takes. when push comes to shove, you really think that's the white house position? they want to risk recession as well just to drive home the point about raising taxes? >> the president wants to solve the problem. that's what he said during the campaign. that's what he is saying now. we cannot lurch as we have for the past two years from one crisis to another. think of all the times that tea party republicans and speaker boehner threatened to shut down the economy, shut down the government over the debt
what we're saying here is we need to do exactly what ronald reagan did with tip o'neill. show the leadership to get in the room and make the changes. same as bill clinton did with newt gingrich. get in the room and make the changes that are needed to make this. look, we faced bigger problems before, and we have been able to overcome them. i believe we can do this one more time. >> senator, the politics of this are also quite interesting and also part of the calculation. the treasury...
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reagan was asked if he had anything to say to the people in the country who did not vote for him and who did not feel that they were part of the reagan revolution. he was also asked about nancy reagan falling down and bumping her head right before the election. he said that she had a tender lump on the side of her head, but that she would be fine. in president clinton's first press conference, after he was re-elected to a second term, the president started to answer a question about the role of first lady hillary clinton in the second clinton term, before he sort of diverted himself into talking about just how damned tired he was. >> well, let me answer the question about hillary. i think what first lady will do is something that i think it will be consistent with what she's been doing, but we have not, frankly, we've been too tired to talk about it. yesterday, i'm embarrassed to tell the american people, i actually slept past noon. i was tired. >> there's no shame in that. >> in the first press conference that george w. bush gave after he was re-elected in 2004, the president gave a
reagan was asked if he had anything to say to the people in the country who did not vote for him and who did not feel that they were part of the reagan revolution. he was also asked about nancy reagan falling down and bumping her head right before the election. he said that she had a tender lump on the side of her head, but that she would be fine. in president clinton's first press conference, after he was re-elected to a second term, the president started to answer a question about the role of...
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. >> ronald reagan and tip o'neill were grownups. they came up with a formula to save social security that showily but surely adjusted the age. people over 55 are uneffected. i think young americans believe social security and medicare are going to fail if we don't do something. why should you and i get 100% of our medicare paid 75 cents of every dollar comes out of the general treasury. we should be paying that ourselves because we can can afford to. >> let me spend a few minutes on foreign policy. congressman, republicans bucking the president's version of foreign policy. let me start with libya. wi are there actually hostilities involved. white house says u.s. operations don't involve sustained fight organize active exchanges of fire with hostile forces nor do they involve u.s. ground troops. are there hostilities? house speaker boehner said, come on, this is ridiculous. >> part of an effort to drop bombs on gadhafi's compounds. i don't know -- i just -- doesn't pass a straight face test in my view that we're not in the midst of h
. >> ronald reagan and tip o'neill were grownups. they came up with a formula to save social security that showily but surely adjusted the age. people over 55 are uneffected. i think young americans believe social security and medicare are going to fail if we don't do something. why should you and i get 100% of our medicare paid 75 cents of every dollar comes out of the general treasury. we should be paying that ourselves because we can can afford to. >> let me spend a few minutes...
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if you go back to 1980 at this point in the race, ronald reagan was down three points or four points in the gallup. mitt romney's basically tied or up one in the gallup polls. this thing has a long way to play out. the other thing, if you look at charlie cook and some independent prognosticators, they say there hasn't really been coattails anyway in the house. senate races are a little different animal than the house race. >> maybe the next chairman of the nrcc. republican from oregon, thanks for coming on. >>> apple's iphone 5 hits stores here in the u.s. about 90 minutes ago. does the phone frenzy boost wall street? it is a quadruple witching friday. becky quick, i grew up with learning these crazy witching fridays so -- so it is option friday. what are the three others? >> it is options and contracts and the futures and stock indexes on all of them. all four of them are expiring at the same time. usually that means you see some positive activity. in fact, if you looked at the quadruple witching fridays in september for the last eight years, ended up every single one of those times
if you go back to 1980 at this point in the race, ronald reagan was down three points or four points in the gallup. mitt romney's basically tied or up one in the gallup polls. this thing has a long way to play out. the other thing, if you look at charlie cook and some independent prognosticators, they say there hasn't really been coattails anyway in the house. senate races are a little different animal than the house race. >> maybe the next chairman of the nrcc. republican from oregon,...
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that all happened this day in 1979 when former california governor ronald reagan announced his third bid for the presidency and for the republican nomination and, of course, that one was successful. >>> the scandal continues to grow around david tpetraeus as his successor general john allen is now linked to the controversy or at least linked to some of the players. let's bring in our panel, political director for the grio.com, and columnist with bloomberg view, and stephanie is the president of emily's list and i also have james from the national journal who is out with a brand-new piece on this entire episode. so, james, i want to start with you because i thought this was a very striking -- you sort of write about -- trying to write about this from 30,000 feet, the impact on national security. this is what you write, no one is condoning what petraeus did, but there are a lot of self-righteous people holding him to a standard that not many people could meet without considering what he sacrificed because of the years of separation from his spouse and family, said one army general. the
that all happened this day in 1979 when former california governor ronald reagan announced his third bid for the presidency and for the republican nomination and, of course, that one was successful. >>> the scandal continues to grow around david tpetraeus as his successor general john allen is now linked to the controversy or at least linked to some of the players. let's bring in our panel, political director for the grio.com, and columnist with bloomberg view, and stephanie is the...
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>> or should the president say if i have to steam roll ronald reagan's house to build a library, you shouldn't have a library. >> there's fox and then there's fox in the morning. the university shot down the rumor, and it hasn't even been confirmed that the presidential library will even be at the university of chicago. the university of hawaii remains a contender. >>> yesterday we found that massachusetts governor deval patrick had chosen mo cowan to fill john kerry's seat. barney frank reacted after announcing he was publicly interested. here is what he told "the hill." if i wanted to talk about feelings, i would have called oprah. barney, that's exactly why we love you. >>> up next, republicans are still talking about like half the country is a bunch of takers. maybe they didn't learn the lessons of the 2012 election, the 47% stuff. more of that coming. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. smoothes, lifts, defies? red jars are all the same right? wrong! you need three uses of a $15 cream to equal the moisturizing power of one use of regenerist microsculpting cream.
>> or should the president say if i have to steam roll ronald reagan's house to build a library, you shouldn't have a library. >> there's fox and then there's fox in the morning. the university shot down the rumor, and it hasn't even been confirmed that the presidential library will even be at the university of chicago. the university of hawaii remains a contender. >>> yesterday we found that massachusetts governor deval patrick had chosen mo cowan to fill john kerry's...
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reagan, elicit very strong passionate responses. but i do think that we all have an obligation to try to conduct this conversation in a civil way. and to recognize that each of us are patriots. that each of us are americans. and that, by the way, the -- my proposals, as much as you may not like them, if you're a republican, or on the right, recognize that this is well within the mainstream of what americans have been talking about for years, in terms of making sure that everybody in this country gets decent health care. and that people who have health care are protected. >> just to be clear though. it wasn't just president carter. there are others in the congressional black caucus. other thinkers who have said that they agree. that there is racism out there in that opposition to you. i just want to be clear, are you saying to the former president and others, to speak this way is counterproductive? >> well, look, david, here's what i'm saying. i think that the media loves to have a conversation about race. i mean, this is catnip to t
reagan, elicit very strong passionate responses. but i do think that we all have an obligation to try to conduct this conversation in a civil way. and to recognize that each of us are patriots. that each of us are americans. and that, by the way, the -- my proposals, as much as you may not like them, if you're a republican, or on the right, recognize that this is well within the mainstream of what americans have been talking about for years, in terms of making sure that everybody in this...
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reagan that taught us big government is bad. it is necessarily bad, the most dangerous words of the english language is i'm from the government and here to help you. that's the opposite of what barack obama believes. he believes that big problems require big government solutions, that government can be a positive force, a force for good. that is who he is. and if he can't sell that, then he cannot sell his presidency. >> i agree. and i think that -- what i think the white house has not done a good enough job at is pointing out is that the government already is a solution to a lot of big problems, and so when people show up at town halls with medicare cards in their pocket and say i don't want any sort of government health care plan, there's a contradiction there. and i think there should have been a way or should be a way for the white house to point out the ways in which government is involved in people's lives and to their benefit. >> the question of the media blitz and overexposure, full disco disclosure here since i got the
reagan that taught us big government is bad. it is necessarily bad, the most dangerous words of the english language is i'm from the government and here to help you. that's the opposite of what barack obama believes. he believes that big problems require big government solutions, that government can be a positive force, a force for good. that is who he is. and if he can't sell that, then he cannot sell his presidency. >> i agree. and i think that -- what i think the white house has not...
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he lost to the pat brown who later lost to ronald reagan. as we all know, that was not richard nixon's last press conference. ten years later, actually -- was it ten years later? six years later he was elected president in a landslide. could sarah palin use the playbook to chart her own political comeback. pat buchanan and tom defrank covers politics for the new york daily news. we have talked a lot about the nixon come back from the cryo genic state he was in. he basically went out, exit snarling, he left attacking the press, and yet within a couple months he was back. he sat out the '64 year. he red shirted himself. he came back in '66 and he said to you, first '66. >> yes. i joined up in '65 actually. what he told me, he said, listen, pat, if i had to be a lawyer the rest of my life, i'd be mentally dead in two years and physically dead in four, and he and i talked for hours and hours every day. incidentally, the '68 win was no landslide. it was humphrey. we won by 500,000 votes. it was a good electoral victory. nixon went out and what we
he lost to the pat brown who later lost to ronald reagan. as we all know, that was not richard nixon's last press conference. ten years later, actually -- was it ten years later? six years later he was elected president in a landslide. could sarah palin use the playbook to chart her own political comeback. pat buchanan and tom defrank covers politics for the new york daily news. we have talked a lot about the nixon come back from the cryo genic state he was in. he basically went out, exit...
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>> ronald reagan cut gasoline tax and other taxes. the reason republicans can't do it is basically, we don't believe it's the right thing for the economy. we have given our word that we won't do it. we just saw last week, it's headed back into intensive care. it's a mistake. don't do it. >> okay. except if we don't have a deal, isn't that as bad for the economy? >> there's two things. one thing, call it the barnicle argument. i'm serious. where is the jobs program here and the deficit cutting here? it's separate. i agree with krugman, where is the jobs program for growth. this is tough stuff. that's not what you need to get the economy going. si an gain, back to reagan. it worked. what obama is doing has not worked. >> pat, on the jobs stuff. let's talk about who has the juice to get a deal done that would result in jobs. that is a far more important issue than the deficit. mr. luke russert, covers congress for a living, who has the juice, john boehner or eric cantor? >> it's an interesting question. in terms of who has it, it's a com
>> ronald reagan cut gasoline tax and other taxes. the reason republicans can't do it is basically, we don't believe it's the right thing for the economy. we have given our word that we won't do it. we just saw last week, it's headed back into intensive care. it's a mistake. don't do it. >> okay. except if we don't have a deal, isn't that as bad for the economy? >> there's two things. one thing, call it the barnicle argument. i'm serious. where is the jobs program here and the...
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ronald reagan. >>> ronald reagan. >>> one last point i got to make -- let's face it -- recognize that right now, in this 24-hour news cycle -- what gets you on the news -- to get you 15 minutes of fame is to be rude to somebody -- to say something rude and outrageous -- be really rude -- and that is something i think has to change and it starts with me. >> you get a lot of air time, too. you're usually not rude. >> well, you know, i do occupy a pretty special seat at the moment. thank you -- thank you -- thank you so much. >> another week of dealing with our nation's problems. we have the privilege here of asking questions in the name of transparency and choice and accountability and what we have been attempting to do and we'll continue to do and we are excited to do it. we'll take a break here. back with the take-away after this. then what i know now. get what dermatologists now recommend to fight aging... in new aveeno positively ageless multidefense. a combination of a high spf and powerful antioxidants... designed to reduce lines and wrinkles in just 4 weeks. new from aveeno. or 1
ronald reagan. >>> ronald reagan. >>> one last point i got to make -- let's face it -- recognize that right now, in this 24-hour news cycle -- what gets you on the news -- to get you 15 minutes of fame is to be rude to somebody -- to say something rude and outrageous -- be really rude -- and that is something i think has to change and it starts with me. >> you get a lot of air time, too. you're usually not rude. >> well, you know, i do occupy a pretty special seat...
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. >> ronald reagan said, i will not hold your youth and inexperience against you. >> i will pass that onto luke. >> you are talking about the diversity about the democratic caucus in which you lead in the house. it is a new thing at least that there is not a straight, white male majority in this caucus. and i wonder, you know, the republican party, won a larger majority of the white vote which they were bragging about today in terms of what went right for them in this election which they lost. they lost all minority groups by large margins. when you look at your group and you have that momentous change, what do you say to people who look at that change and think i'm not sure i'm happy about the fact that there is a -- in the democratic caucus? >> i haven't met anybody like that yet. >> but let's say i would say everybody is talking about how we can appeal to these people to vote for us and we are saying no, we want to go beyond that. we want them to represent us. so it is not about we need your vote this is an election day alliance, we want you to have a seat at the table. it is not t
. >> ronald reagan said, i will not hold your youth and inexperience against you. >> i will pass that onto luke. >> you are talking about the diversity about the democratic caucus in which you lead in the house. it is a new thing at least that there is not a straight, white male majority in this caucus. and i wonder, you know, the republican party, won a larger majority of the white vote which they were bragging about today in terms of what went right for them in this election...
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. >> the genius of ronald reagan was, and a lot of critics will say it, he could debate the smartest professor at harvard and grind their bones to dust, because reagan could break it down. like you said, 140 characters or less, a story and all of a sudden 60% of american was with him. >> and it was the brilliance in my opinion of carl rove and the bush campaigns when i was out in 2000 and 2004. they were always on message. the message was pointed, the message was consistent. clear and understandable, and i think that's something that both the democrats and republicans have to learn. maybe the democrats as you say a little bit more. how do you bring all these people together? i get asked all the time and i'm not washington based. is it worse than it was in congress than during the clint on era? what happened? how did the divide get so broad? we thought it was bad when we were watching the clinton impeachment. >> in addition to all of the other things obama has to worry about, he may have to worry about a new secretary of state in a couple of years. hillary clinton looking farther than
. >> the genius of ronald reagan was, and a lot of critics will say it, he could debate the smartest professor at harvard and grind their bones to dust, because reagan could break it down. like you said, 140 characters or less, a story and all of a sudden 60% of american was with him. >> and it was the brilliance in my opinion of carl rove and the bush campaigns when i was out in 2000 and 2004. they were always on message. the message was pointed, the message was consistent. clear...
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and then i see ronald reagan walking down the path. so he's on the right path. how do you find another reagan? how do you find someone who can win and not only win but win really big the second term and lead the country with a positive legacy for having been president? >> you know, reagan wasn't reagan as you remember very well even in the summer of 1980. a lot of people inside the carter white house and most people in the media didn't think reagan had a shot of being elected anything. but once he got into office, it's great talking to you about this because you were there and saw it up close. ronald reagan was extraordinarily conservative. tip o'neill and he couldn't be further apart. yet reagan figured day in and day out how to either fight tip o'neill and the democratic congress or strike deals when he knew he could get his 80% but had to give the 20% to the other side. he was pragmatic and he always found the middle of the political system. there was this great line from "the triumph of politics" from way back in the early '80s where reagan turned to his adv
and then i see ronald reagan walking down the path. so he's on the right path. how do you find another reagan? how do you find someone who can win and not only win but win really big the second term and lead the country with a positive legacy for having been president? >> you know, reagan wasn't reagan as you remember very well even in the summer of 1980. a lot of people inside the carter white house and most people in the media didn't think reagan had a shot of being elected anything....
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reagan. >> well steven seagal. putin likes the rough stuff, i can't say it's a big surprise. >>> a big moment for the michigan state senate yesterday, but only if you're an avid pirate enenthusiast. the michigan state senate adopted a resolution to officially recognize international talk like a pirate day. well state senator roger khan took to the floor in celebration. >> thank you, matey. today we have passed, speak like a pirate day. it's time to now recognize the state of michigan. acknowledges this holiday, and grants it recognition it truly deserves. as a great lakes state, one of michigan's main duties should be promoting worthy maritime initiatives and this of course is one. >> don't you love babbitry? earlier this year president obama said it's politics 101 that presidents don't look very good wearing stuff on their heads. the same might someday be said for applying pirate paraphernalia during your speech on the senate floor. >>> up next, three more reminders that republicans are in a time warp when it come
reagan. >> well steven seagal. putin likes the rough stuff, i can't say it's a big surprise. >>> a big moment for the michigan state senate yesterday, but only if you're an avid pirate enenthusiast. the michigan state senate adopted a resolution to officially recognize international talk like a pirate day. well state senator roger khan took to the floor in celebration. >> thank you, matey. today we have passed, speak like a pirate day. it's time to now recognize the state...
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reagan would be pushed to the sidelines in today's republican party. >> ronald reagan, who as i recall is not accused of being a tax and spend socialist, understood repeatedly that when the deficit started to get out of control, that for him to make a deal, he would have to propose both spending cuts and tax increases. did it multiple times. he could not get through a republican primary today. >> and when it came to specific policy differences, president obama -- >> hold on a second. i'm sorry. >> this is the best part right here. it's coming up. >> he's no better at constitutional law than he is at republican politics. >> oh, please. he spoke about that too. i'll get there. >> barack obama is the expert on who can win a republican primary today? >> you simmer down. stop. >> i'm relaxed. i don't say -- i have never once -- never once have you heard me say that anything that barack obama supports is, quote, radical vision for america. >> right. ok. >> and goes against everything -- what did he say? goes against everything -- >> well, you haven't talked about the ryan budget then. >> ant
reagan would be pushed to the sidelines in today's republican party. >> ronald reagan, who as i recall is not accused of being a tax and spend socialist, understood repeatedly that when the deficit started to get out of control, that for him to make a deal, he would have to propose both spending cuts and tax increases. did it multiple times. he could not get through a republican primary today. >> and when it came to specific policy differences, president obama -- >> hold on a...
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. >> judge clyde roger vincent is a ronald reagan appointee. judge clyde roger vincent is an avid hunter, amateur taxidermist. do you know what a taxidermist is? that's right. for our liberal caller today, this is not good news. after a 2002 hunting trip during which he killed three brown bears, judge clyde roger vincent had their heads mounted over the door, through which defendants have to pass to enter his courtroom. at the time, judge vincent said the sight of the severed bear heads would instill a fear of god into the accused. >> except none of that's true. judge vincent tells "the new york times" that he doesn't hunt that much, certainly never for bear and his favorite hobby is horticulture. he's president of the american camellia society. where did limbaugh get the wrong info? he claims he got it from the pensacola newspaper on june 31st. there is no june 31st. the fake article was listed on judge vincent's page on wikipedia, which would be stupid. except last year when limbaugh was misquoted last year, he said, everybody knows they're s
. >> judge clyde roger vincent is a ronald reagan appointee. judge clyde roger vincent is an avid hunter, amateur taxidermist. do you know what a taxidermist is? that's right. for our liberal caller today, this is not good news. after a 2002 hunting trip during which he killed three brown bears, judge clyde roger vincent had their heads mounted over the door, through which defendants have to pass to enter his courtroom. at the time, judge vincent said the sight of the severed bear heads...
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reagan would be too liberal for today's republican party, that's -- it is a very sad negotiation about what has happened in terms of the cannibalization of the right and of the republican party. i think the good news is, in a very ironic way for people in the middle and for democrats is this is a great opportunity to go out and energize the voters who really care about the country and who quite frankly their livelihoods are in danger, to go out and get them energized and engaged in politics. think about all the people who can vote, that don't vote that are registered to vote or not even registered and should register and go out and vote, and i believe that there is a time now for the critical mass, the great american center, to get involved and actually do something about this. >> i think we settled it. end where we started. the whig party is coming back. i want to thank michelle bere narcotic, victoria difrancesco soto, sean willentz. a passionate movement is coming to washington, d.c. and doesn't involve the tea party. we'll tell you when it is next. thank you orville and wilbur... .
reagan would be too liberal for today's republican party, that's -- it is a very sad negotiation about what has happened in terms of the cannibalization of the right and of the republican party. i think the good news is, in a very ironic way for people in the middle and for democrats is this is a great opportunity to go out and energize the voters who really care about the country and who quite frankly their livelihoods are in danger, to go out and get them energized and engaged in politics....
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. >> ronald reagan for these republicans should be listening to used to say don't drive your box office below 50% because you can't blame the american people being dumb you're not selling what you're doing properly and clearly the shutdown has not been sold properly. they stepped all over obama care without damaging it and enhanced obama care. it's been disastrous. >> box office below 50%. >> douglas thank you. your book "cronkite" now out in paper work. christie hefner great to see you. chuck stay with us if you can. up next -- >> a new report by a group of journalists describes the obama white house as one of the least transparent administrations in history. we'll tell you why next. and how would fdr or winston churchill cult through the noise in washington right now? they are just two of the names topping our list of the best political leaders we need right now. that's straight ahead when "morning joe" comes back. for sein a whole new way. for seeing what cash is coming in and going out... so you can understand every angle of your cash flow- last week, this month, and even next year.
. >> ronald reagan for these republicans should be listening to used to say don't drive your box office below 50% because you can't blame the american people being dumb you're not selling what you're doing properly and clearly the shutdown has not been sold properly. they stepped all over obama care without damaging it and enhanced obama care. it's been disastrous. >> box office below 50%. >> douglas thank you. your book "cronkite" now out in paper work. christie...
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like ronald reagan and tip o'neil did. there's no reason not to adjust the age. we can afford some means testing. that will save social security from bankruptcy as headed towards across the board cuts in 20 years. i applaud what you're doing but let's put social security on the table. me and senator mccain will work on a resolution. >> senator durbin? >> david f-i could say this about social security. i want to thank my colleague for the kind words. social security does not add one penny to the deficit. social security untouched will make every promised payment for more than a years. the deficit commission was given a charge. add 75 more years of solvency to social security. it came up with an approach. i think, frankly, another commission came up with a better approach. we need to move on social security but let's put it on a track that runs parallel but separate to deficit reduction. the social security program as it is currently put together does not have any impact on the deficit. >> senator graham, few people believe there's none at arithmetic problem with s
like ronald reagan and tip o'neil did. there's no reason not to adjust the age. we can afford some means testing. that will save social security from bankruptcy as headed towards across the board cuts in 20 years. i applaud what you're doing but let's put social security on the table. me and senator mccain will work on a resolution. >> senator durbin? >> david f-i could say this about social security. i want to thank my colleague for the kind words. social security does not add one...
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reagan on social security reform we can add years of solvency and to medicare and do it and increase benefits like with obama care and we need both sides to be willing. i know the democrats are willing. president obama's willing to sit down at the table. what we don't need to do i can tell you is cut benefits. that's something that i don't think is the first thing that should be put forward. we have a lot of opportunity to continue to make reforms in medicare, make sure we build in more efficiencies to the program so we can add the years of solvency. >> what about eligibility age change? >> well, eligibility age change would fall in the realm of benefit cuts. we need to focus like i said first on making sure we build in more efficiencies to the program. we have been able to from obama care make sure that with that $716 billion in savings plowed in to waste, fraud and abuse -- fighting waste, fraud and abuse we have collected more than $10 billion in fraudulent medicare payments and we can make more progress in that area, as well. >> thank you so much. i greatly appreciate you joining
reagan on social security reform we can add years of solvency and to medicare and do it and increase benefits like with obama care and we need both sides to be willing. i know the democrats are willing. president obama's willing to sit down at the table. what we don't need to do i can tell you is cut benefits. that's something that i don't think is the first thing that should be put forward. we have a lot of opportunity to continue to make reforms in medicare, make sure we build in more...
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ronald reagan understood that. if that's who we republicans want to claim as our hero, let's take a closer look at the record of reagan. on taxes, on budgets, i would say on assault weapons especially right now for a republican party that seems to be veering, i think, dangerously close to territory post-newtown, that could cost them a lot of swing seats. we have got to learn what buckley always told us to do. look at the realities in front of us. and deal with those realities in our politics. >> we're sort of dop l gangers you and i. i have a jealous interest in this. i want to see two parties i can choose from. i don't think i've got them right now. but i grew up in a state of pennsylvania where we had people like bill scranton and tom ridge i could have voted for. they were pragmatists. they may not have been in bed with labor some people like them to be, but they were good leaders. i think the country is better off having people like that before christie. we grew up with the northeast packed with people like ed
ronald reagan understood that. if that's who we republicans want to claim as our hero, let's take a closer look at the record of reagan. on taxes, on budgets, i would say on assault weapons especially right now for a republican party that seems to be veering, i think, dangerously close to territory post-newtown, that could cost them a lot of swing seats. we have got to learn what buckley always told us to do. look at the realities in front of us. and deal with those realities in our politics....
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we did those chronologically starting with ronald reagan in 1982. presidents making oval office announcements about u.s. wars, about u.s. military interventions. some of them amounting to small wars, some amounting to very large wars. now that the united states has embarked on its latest new military intervention in libya, i would love to be able to show you the current president's oval office address on the subject, but there isn't one. president obama did make a public statement saturday afternoon that we had started that military intervention in libya, but did so from the confines of a convention center in brazil. eight years to the day that george w. bush stared unsteadily into the camera and announced the iraq invasion, president obama announced his own military intervention, but pointedly declined the opportunity to do it in a way that u.s. presidents usually do. president obama taking all sorts of criticism from the right over the past few days for not cancelling his trade visit to latin america as a result of this military action in libya. a
we did those chronologically starting with ronald reagan in 1982. presidents making oval office announcements about u.s. wars, about u.s. military interventions. some of them amounting to small wars, some amounting to very large wars. now that the united states has embarked on its latest new military intervention in libya, i would love to be able to show you the current president's oval office address on the subject, but there isn't one. president obama did make a public statement saturday...
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campaign -- >> under ronald reagan. >> reagan jocks program. >> reagan unemployment. >> the reagan linealliry. >> the ronald reagan reagan technique. >> president reagan. >> president reagan. >> i'm with president reagan. >> but it's not just mr. gingrich. this is what it's like to run a republican campaign. you have to incant reagan, reagan, reagan, you have to propose a policy named reagan. you should consider a pet or a child named reagan maybe. what's it like to see the republican party's decision to elevate ronald reagan as a saint when you are the former president who sat on the inaugural stage with reagan in 1980 and wrote this about him in your diary that day? on the day president reagan was inaugurated president carter wrote this, quote, "i consider him to have an affable and decent man. his life seems to be governed by a few anecdotes and vignettes that he has memorized. he doesn't seem to like to listen -- excuse me. he doesn't seem to listen when anybody talks to him." here's president jimmy carter today on the republican candidates, the religious right, president obama's re-elect
campaign -- >> under ronald reagan. >> reagan jocks program. >> reagan unemployment. >> the reagan linealliry. >> the ronald reagan reagan technique. >> president reagan. >> president reagan. >> i'm with president reagan. >> but it's not just mr. gingrich. this is what it's like to run a republican campaign. you have to incant reagan, reagan, reagan, you have to propose a policy named reagan. you should consider a pet or a child named reagan...
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he went in there with one goal, like ronald reagan used to do, i want one headline, don't let the middle class be held hostage. he repeated it over and over again. >> reporter: he said it 19 times. >> he didn't want the headline to be switched by adversarial press or neutral press that didn't to want go with his line to say him, adamantings president adamant on rich paying 39.6%. maybe that's why you softened up to you. just an interpretation. >> reporter: i can tell you congressional republicans were happy with his response. they like to know there is some give. here's where the give could be, chris. nobody's talked about this. i mean, there's been some behind the scenes chatter on this, which is you could see tax rates temporarily go up just not all the way to 39%. it could be somewhere in the middle. ends up being the compromise for the one year. don't forget, this is all about setting the tax rates simply for 2013, while they negotiate larger tax reform. so, that could be what the wiggle room is. obviously, republicans have said they don't want to raise tax rates at all. they're fine
he went in there with one goal, like ronald reagan used to do, i want one headline, don't let the middle class be held hostage. he repeated it over and over again. >> reporter: he said it 19 times. >> he didn't want the headline to be switched by adversarial press or neutral press that didn't to want go with his line to say him, adamantings president adamant on rich paying 39.6%. maybe that's why you softened up to you. just an interpretation. >> reporter: i can tell you...
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if ronald reagan stuck his neck out for l.a. olympics, if rudy giuliani stuck his neck out, any democratic -- i don't think they instinctively would have. they would have said, good try, good move. >> imagine how happy these guys would be if obama lost a war. i mean, it's -- may even come to pass, but they are just is -- >> give me that newspaper over here, will you? when you're talking about a war, let me try to remind ourselves -- here's a war. this is real. eight u.s. soldiers killed in that attack the other day at that outpost. it's real. let's talk about the olympics. this is not nuclear arms negotiations with gorbachev. >> it's a reflection of the political times. anything seen as a loss for obama regardless what it is is caused for celebration on the right. >> when o.j. verdict came in, black and white reaction, instantaneous reaction is telling. it's not a game. these people's glee was real. >> that's what was frightening about it. i remember after 9/11 and for the people on the left and democrats who despised george w.
if ronald reagan stuck his neck out for l.a. olympics, if rudy giuliani stuck his neck out, any democratic -- i don't think they instinctively would have. they would have said, good try, good move. >> imagine how happy these guys would be if obama lost a war. i mean, it's -- may even come to pass, but they are just is -- >> give me that newspaper over here, will you? when you're talking about a war, let me try to remind ourselves -- here's a war. this is real. eight u.s. soldiers...
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ronald reagan directing . >> come here to this gate. mr. gorbechov, open this gate. mr. gorbechov, tear down this wall. >> 25 years ago today. doris, how important is to let presidents speak in their own voice and follow their instincts rather than having someone tell them what they can and cannot say. >> ronald reagan understanding that the kind of tone, that simple statement could become a shorthand for what eventually happened. you have a partnership between gorbechov and reagan. you have an arms race. the memory of all of us will be those simple words, "tear down this wall." presidents understand how to communicate to the community. we need to trust them more sometimes as they call them the pinstripe diplomats. >> that is why they got elected. we have seen the good and the bad. thank you very much. doris goodwin. thank you. we'll be right back. ♪ [music plays] ♪ [music plays] that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. for half the calories plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. particularly on capitol hill. that is where lawmakers and eric holder are sparring ov
ronald reagan directing . >> come here to this gate. mr. gorbechov, open this gate. mr. gorbechov, tear down this wall. >> 25 years ago today. doris, how important is to let presidents speak in their own voice and follow their instincts rather than having someone tell them what they can and cannot say. >> ronald reagan understanding that the kind of tone, that simple statement could become a shorthand for what eventually happened. you have a partnership between gorbechov and...
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my life has been so much in the publicsector, and if i say i worked with ronald reagan to develop a jobs plan that's demonstrable. and if i say we worked with president clintonnd we had unemployment come down to 4.2% and balancedthe budget for four straight years, and that's out in the open. governor romney should be held to the same test of bei out in e open. >> do you beeve governor omney is aood businessman and has been a good businessman, don't you? >> sure. i think he's a tough and smart businessman. and the question is what is his character and what w hi judgment? how does that relate to being president? are there legitimate questions that can be asd that ought to be answered by somebody who wants to be president. it's a question about how you approach people. how you approach circumstances, what values you bring to bear, and those are legitimate questions if all ofs are running for president and people should know it before they vote, because the presidency is such a central position in our society th you want to know what does ts person think, what are they doing, and what values
my life has been so much in the publicsector, and if i say i worked with ronald reagan to develop a jobs plan that's demonstrable. and if i say we worked with president clintonnd we had unemployment come down to 4.2% and balancedthe budget for four straight years, and that's out in the open. governor romney should be held to the same test of bei out in e open. >> do you beeve governor omney is aood businessman and has been a good businessman, don't you? >> sure. i think he's a tough...
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and ronald reagan recessed to appoint people. listen, the point is this, the president is entitled by our constitution to appoint people. the republicans have made it so that the national labor relations board, they didn't want it to even work, and he had to do recess appointments there. cordray. that's what this is all about. that's why it was such a good move by the president. i am confident that the president's recess appointments will be upheld in the courts. without any question, i think that will be the case. >> let me go through some issues if i can. >> let me ask you -- >> if i could say, the recess appointment is something that i came up with during the bush years, but the reason bush didn't do recess appointments during the time we had the recess is because i worked with him, and we gave president bush hundreds and hundreds of people. he didn't have to worry about recess appointments because we were working with him, and i believe the man that i believe now the president has the right to make appointment. >> you talk ab
and ronald reagan recessed to appoint people. listen, the point is this, the president is entitled by our constitution to appoint people. the republicans have made it so that the national labor relations board, they didn't want it to even work, and he had to do recess appointments there. cordray. that's what this is all about. that's why it was such a good move by the president. i am confident that the president's recess appointments will be upheld in the courts. without any question, i think...
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ronald reagan sat down wi tip o'neill to solve problems. bill cnton sat down wit newt gingrich to balance the budget and end welfare as we know it. this whole speech is about pitting one group of americans against the other. and his policies are t biggest threat to the hard-working americans. yore a union guy, the pipeline would be good for you because it would create 20,000 jobs. the nlrb in hands of this administration, almost cost a fality in south carolina that would have cost 10,000 hard-working soutcarolinians eir jobs because of union politics. the environmental policies of this administration make it very hard to create a job. the speech, the speech wasn't about his successes. it's abou hard-working americans in class warfare. and i ask the question again, mr. president, what is a fair share? pick a number. tell me how much you want to take in taxes at the t ra. pick a number a let's see if it works. >> senator durbin? it's all politi. >> what is the nunuer? >> david, let me just say that the president has tried for three straight y
ronald reagan sat down wi tip o'neill to solve problems. bill cnton sat down wit newt gingrich to balance the budget and end welfare as we know it. this whole speech is about pitting one group of americans against the other. and his policies are t biggest threat to the hard-working americans. yore a union guy, the pipeline would be good for you because it would create 20,000 jobs. the nlrb in hands of this administration, almost cost a fality in south carolina that would have cost 10,000...
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ronald reagan did that. he needed to do that. >> trust in government was different when fdr did it. >> he needed to restore trust in government and was in a position to do that. and emphasize the way they are reforming government which they are but nobody knows that. >> the flip side of that question, you can address this big one. have republicans done anything to really regain trust about their leadership? >> no. it's mostly a free gift from obama fundamentally fumbling this. i disagree with e.j. again. i'll have to agree at some point with you to be a good colleague on the set. but people know what obama is about. they know what the program is. they know he's growing government because he thinks that's good for the economy and the country's future. the problem is threefold. democrats thought in '08 they had a mandate from heaven to do whatever they wanted, but they were getting an opportunity because they were recoiling from the republicans and the economy and then there was opportunism, a crisis -- never
ronald reagan did that. he needed to do that. >> trust in government was different when fdr did it. >> he needed to restore trust in government and was in a position to do that. and emphasize the way they are reforming government which they are but nobody knows that. >> the flip side of that question, you can address this big one. have republicans done anything to really regain trust about their leadership? >> no. it's mostly a free gift from obama fundamentally fumbling...
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you talk about ronald reagan not being able to get elected at this point. the tea partiers have called you a republican in name only. do you think the republicans have some work to do before they can reach majority status? >> well, i think what we have to do is come up with a uniting agen agenda. a contract with america. what would we do different on spending? i support the line item veto. i would give president obama the line item veto. let's look at the health care bill. let's replace it with something that expands coverage in the private sector. let's look at the stimulus bill that doubled the department of education's budget and redo the stimulus bill to create jobs. there's a lot of things we can do to balance out what obama has done and going forward show the american people the republican party can govern. i want a coalition of tea party people, independents, moderates, democrats, trying to find a way to move this country forward before we become greece. >> senator, i want to conclude by asking you a question about iraq and afghanistan. the president
you talk about ronald reagan not being able to get elected at this point. the tea partiers have called you a republican in name only. do you think the republicans have some work to do before they can reach majority status? >> well, i think what we have to do is come up with a uniting agen agenda. a contract with america. what would we do different on spending? i support the line item veto. i would give president obama the line item veto. let's look at the health care bill. let's replace...
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and people like the fact that ronald reagan told it like it was. i was an early reagan supporter here in 1976. i'm proud of the leadership that he provided for this country under the malaise that we were under back under jimmy carter, and we had a president that brought america back and rebuilt our economy, and we need a president that has that kind of courage, not somebody that's going to divide the american people one against the other. we need to reduce the tax and regulatory burden. when i was governor before canada, the canadian dollar was worth 65 cents to the american dollar and we were able to bring canadian companies here. now the canadian dollar -- >> let me get -- >> -- their financial system is stronger. >> good points, all. i will say that i think governor romney lost a lot more than 10,000 bucks last night and newt gingrich won a lot. why hasn't mitt romney bumped above 25% in these polls? i think we saw it last night. voters think this country is in huge trouble, republicans do, and they want somebody to bring big change. and mitt ro
and people like the fact that ronald reagan told it like it was. i was an early reagan supporter here in 1976. i'm proud of the leadership that he provided for this country under the malaise that we were under back under jimmy carter, and we had a president that brought america back and rebuilt our economy, and we need a president that has that kind of courage, not somebody that's going to divide the american people one against the other. we need to reduce the tax and regulatory burden. when i...